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No.456 ,'1"75. Patented July 21, 1891;

Witnassss: In'Usntor- Htt'g UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLAYTON M. VAN ORMAN, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR' OF ONE- HALF TO PIER N. ARVIDSON, OF SAME PLACE.

UMBRELLA-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.456,175, dated July 21, 1891.

Application filed August 18, 1890. Serial No. 362,295. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLAYTON M. VAN OR- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalamazoo, county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Umbrella-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to construct an umbrella-holder having the below described and claimed peculiar features of construction designed to simplify and cheapen the same and add to its appearance and utility.

In the drawings forming a part. of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view of a lettered detail in Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is another plan view of a lettered detail in Fig. 3. Fig. 3is a side elevation, and Figs. 4 and 5 show modifications from Fig. 1.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, A is the upper part of the holder, provided with a series of closed loops or rings 4.' around a circular form and made from a single rod of metal or wire.

B is the lower part of the holder, made from a single piece of wire or rod in a general circular form and provided Withaseries of large open loops 0 and between the same with a series of smaller open loops 1". The upper and lower parts of the holder are separated from each other and connected by rods 6 e, which are attached at the bottom to the small open loops 4. By making the lower part B providcd with the small open loops 7' it is much stiffer and forms a convenient point to which to attach the lower ends of the rods 6. The

upper ends of these rods 6 are attached to the rod or wire between the rings i 2', or they may be attached to the rings themselves, if desired.

The design shown in Fig. 3 is intended for hanging up or to be suspended from some suitable support; but of course they may be mounted upon a stand which sits upon the store-floor, or they may be made elongated and attached to a wall, or they may be made one-half round or semicircular, as the modification shows in Fig. 4, and attached to a wall or support, or they may be made to represent a quarter of a circle in plan view, so as to be attached to the wall in the corner of a room, as shown in Fig. 5, or they may be made in other forms and all of them be either suspended or supported, as desired.

Fig. 3 illustrates the holder in use, the umbrellas having been first inserted up through the rings '5 and then carried back into the open loops 0, thus bringing the tapered portions of said umbrellas which are above the handles into said loops, said loops 0 of course being of such a width that the umbrellas cannot fall through them.

While I have described the parts A and B as being made from a single piece of wire or a rod made in this shape, it will appear obvi-,

ous, of course, that they maybe molded out of any suitable material or otherwise formed in this shape.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

An umbrella-holder comprising the upper part provided with a series of rings and the lower part provided with a series of large open loops and a series of small open loops alternating therewith, and the rods having their lower ends attached to said loops, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in presence of two witnesses.

CLAYTON M. VAN ORMAN.

Witnesses:

L. N. BURKE, BELLE O. FREEMAN. 

